Estimates of the worldwide mortality from 25 cancers in 1990

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-29

  Pisani, Paola ^a   Parkin, D Maxwell ^a   Bray, Freddie ^a   Ferlay, Jacques ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032843811     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990924)83:1<18::AID-IJC5>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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